Rosemary Griggs

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I’m thrilled to reveal the stunning jacket the clever people at Pen and Sword Books have designed for my forthcoming book about the woman known to fans of Tudor history as ‘Kat Ashley’.

#history #elizabethan #womeninhistory #katashley

Three Marys window, 19th century stained glass at St Peter’s Church, Stoke Fleming.

#StainedGlassSunday

Happy bookshop day! Thank you to all our brilliant bookshops.

#books #bookshopday #authorslife

St. Peter’s, Stoke Fleming with its 13th century tower

The roughly hewn cross may be 15th century. It was re- erected in 1920 as a First World War memorial.

#SteepleSaturday #SundayStonework #saturdaystonework

Nerines and some rather battered dahlias keeping the show going in my Devon garden.

#FlowersonFriday #garden

A plain Norman font at St Peter’s, Stoke Fleming, Devon.

I found time for a peep in the church after speaking at the Village Hall on Wednesday.

#FontsonFriday

A week today!

#bookevent #Devon #devonbooks

A very shiny door, at St Peter’s, Stoke Fleming, Devon

Love the colour of the wood! 🚪

#AdoorableThursday

Rose Compassion — one brave bloom still lingers against the wall.

#RoseWednesday

Window with zig-zag moulding overlooked by some interesting faces at St Mary de Castro, Leicester.

#WindowsOnWednesday

I spy mermaids playing harps. Chair in Totnes museum.

#woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday

Yes — lots of different spellings though!

A small section of the Bacton Altar Cloth, a wonderful 16th century survivor, part of a gown worn by Elizabeth 1.

I visited St Faith’s Church, Bacton in 2024.

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📷 2019 at HamptonCourt Palace

#TextileTuesday #embroidery

Alabaster effigy only 2ft 3in long, in St Blaise Church, Haccombe, Devon likely marks the heart burial of 16 year-old Edward Courtenay, son of Sir Hugh Courtenay (d.1425) by his 3rd wife Philippa (nee Archdeacon)

#MonumentsMonday #medieval

Caitlin Pharoah!!

Huge congratulations to the wonderful Caitlin Pharaoh @hummingbirds_photography

on the launch of her fabulous book Hidden Figures of the South West.

I’m honoured to be included among so many amazing unsung professionals.

#booklaunch #southwest

Exmouth, yesterday evening.

#SeaSide #devon

Catherine of Aragon in stained glass at The Vyne, Basingstoke.

Commissioned before 1533 by William, 1st Baron Sandys (c.1470–1540), Lord Chamberlain to King Henry VIII from 1530.

📷from my visit in 2022

#StainedGlassSunday #catherineofaragon #Tudor

St Olave’s Church, Exeter, an 11th century chapel founded by King Harold’s mother, Gytha.

#SteepleSaturday

In my rather soggy Devon garden this morning.

I’m heading for Dartington, but the weather doesn’t look too promising.

#FlowersonFriday

Two fonts at St Mary de Castro Church, Leicester. One is richly carved 13th century. I’m guessing the one on the right isn’t the older, Norman font discovered in 1821, supporting a staircase in the castle, mentioned on the church website?

#FontsonFriday

Had fun recording five snippets from Devon history at BBC Radio Devon this morning. They will be included in a series of programmes called ‘Secret Devon’ — going out on Monday’s soon.

#history #devonhistory #bbcradiodevon #radiorecording

#otd 2 October 1501 Catherine or Aragon stepped ashore in Plymouth and went to St Andrew’s Church to give thanks for her safe arrival.

Coincidentally I’m heading for Plymouth this morning.

#tudor #plymouth

Field gate at sunset — somewhere in Cornwall last evening.

#thursgate #sunset #gate #Cornwall

Tudor doorway at Great Fulford Manor, Devon

#AdoorableThursday #tudor

Crossing the Tamar!

#cornwall

Enjoyed visiting Salcombe History Society yesterday evening. Here I am about to take to the pitch— not to play rugby, I hasten to add!

#historytalks #tudor

Adding a splash of pink to my Devon garden in autumn— colchicum.

The leaves don’t belong to them — they’re in amongst the pulmonaria.

#autumnflowers #flowers #gardening

On the south aisle wall at St Mary de Castro Church are four pieces of carving, which might be 16th century Flemish or from Germany.

I wonder how they came to be here?

#woodcarvingwednesday #woodcarving